Not too shabby. Made 95 work hours in less than four days time busting buns for the military returning as well as leaving recently. Since I overmaxed my hours in such a short time, the contractor I'm working for decided to give me all of next week off (lol, hopefully not as a parting gift), hence I should be on SG more often all week. Yay sayeth the pirate in me! ARGGH!

ROFL! Two more days until I start a new career and I'm only missing one important item....my original birth certificate proving that I was born an American Citizen. Normally major companies allow one to use a U.S. passport as proof, simply for the fact that to get a passport the government checks your birth certificate before returning it to you. Grrrr, I have no idea where I placed that document, even though I keep really good records (heh, I may have hid it from thieves and hence myself)! Heh, we'll see tomorrow if I can locate it or get a different form to use instead. I've also realized that during extremely hot times, as it has been here in Texas lately, that anyone who enjoys rice will find crunchy little surprises in their meal if not aware. Seems that humidity and high heat allows for weevils and grain beetles to hatch from your lovely little repast and infest your container with minions of munch'n'crunch. At first I thought they were typical weevils, until I did some research and discovered that weevils have a long thin snout (probiscus), whereas these resembled tiny brown ants with streamlined bodies and small heads. More research later and they were found to be Sawtoothed Grain Beetles. From all accounts on various sites, they are pretty harmless but reproduce rapidly and can infest a kitchen and any pantry products like cereal or crackers. Good thing my new pets are locked away inside a plastic container with a screw-on cap. Makes me wonder if the 100 or so that are there now, and the 20+ larvae I did see (and the countless hundreds of others I didn't) will eat up their oxygen quickly in this 105 F degree temperature, or if they'll breath their own gases and live forever (or until the rice is gone, whichever comes first).

Well, time to bid two deep-shade red tabby kittens faretheewell as they will be given to a no-kill shelter for a donation or three. I can't raise three kittens, their mother and another young adult male who have all seemingly adopted me (I've always attracted felines and vice versa in my lifetime). The kittens can be adopted out into a hopefully good home, although it is hard to say in a military community with so many families having to move so often that the adopted kiddos get abandoned on the streets or highways with hardly a sniffle from the adults.... The no-kill shelter will raise and spay/neuter these twins along with relevant shots. I'll adopt a very tiny dark grey sister from a different father, who has a special forehead marking that calls to me, and keep the mother and possibly the young adult male (possibly an older sibling?). I used to enjoy dogs, but cats eat less, make less mess and can be just as faithful (maybe not as loyal) as a dog if brought up symbiotically.